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- noun Plural form of
society .
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Examples
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He renders societies in which the dynamic of change opens new frontiers only for opportunists, "half-made societies doomed to remain half-made."
Without Regret or Hope Didion, Joan 1980
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"Selfishness" is a word societies need to think about.
Amy Chavez: No Looting in Japan Amy Chavez 2011
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"Selfishness" is a word societies need to think about.
Amy Chavez: No Looting in Japan Amy Chavez 2011
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"Selfishness" is a word societies need to think about.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Amy Chavez 2011
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I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all.
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From Pinter's speech: I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all.
pinter again 2005
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Particularly in societies where women are little more than property, sexual favors tend to be for sale or trade – bad news when you are a Neolithic clan in Polynesia or a paleolithic tribe in Australia and a shipload of European sailors arrive bearing metal tools, trinkets, and several strains of syphilis.
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Even in societies where prostitution is either legal or regulated, it was usually not considered a functioning part of mainstream society.
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Rosie Smith, an 18-year-old from London, tells me she has been reading Edith Wharton lately, "and it's writers like that, who have been in societies where women didn't really mean anything at all, who I really look up to".
Role models: someone to look up to Kira Cochrane 2010
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The natural allies to young women in societies practicing clitorectomy are actually young men who want their partners to experience sexual pleasure.
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